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This aberrant woodpecker haunts the wastelands where cremations 

 are performed, burnt-over areas, the borders of scrubby jungle, and 

 roadsides. I usually found it gathering ants on the ground, whence 

 it would fly silently to some nearby tree or fence post and wait for the 

 interruption to pass so that it might resume its feeding. 



A male had the irides light brown ; the orbital skin plumbeous ; the 

 maxilla flesh}' horn ; the mandible plumbeous-horn ; the feet and toes 

 light olive-green ; the claws horn. A female had the irides dull gray- 

 brown; the bill horn; the feet and toes light horny olive; the claws 

 horn. 



The wryneck has the upperparts grayish, finely vermiculated with 

 gray-brown and pale rufous, marked from the nape to the center of 

 the back with broad black streaks and elsewhere with numerous black 

 streaks and bars, gray and pale rufous spots; the primaries barred 

 black and pale rufous ; a deep brown band behind the eye and a nar- 

 row black streak below the ear coverts; the underparts rufous-buff, 

 deepest on throat and upper breast, marked with narrow black or 

 blackish-brown cross bars, which break up into small sagittate spots on 

 the albescent abdomen. 



Order PASSERIFORMES 

 Family EURYLAIMIDAE 



PSARISOMUS DALHOUSIAE DALHOUSIAE (Jameson) 



Indian Long-tailed Broadbill 



[Eurylaimus^ Dalhousiae Jameson, Edinburgh New Philos. Journ., vol. 18, [not 

 before] April 1835, pp. 389-390 ("Northern India"; type specimen from 

 "Himalayas, 10,000 feet," fide Stenhouse, Nov. Zool., vol. 35, 1930, p. 272). 



Eurylaimus Dalhousiae "Wilson" Royle, Illustrations of the botany and other 

 branches of the natural history of the Himalayan Mountains and of the 

 flora of Cashmere, vol. 1, No. 6, 1839 [=April 1835], pi. 7, fig. 2 (no locality 

 given ; figured specimen from "Mussooree, at 6,500 feet of elevation," fide 

 Royle, ibid., Suppl. No., 1840, p. Ixxviii, where name is corrected to Eury- 

 laimus Dalhousiae "Jameson" ) . 



Psarisomus dalhousiae, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1916, 

 p. 86 ("Meh Nja Min" [between Muang Fang and Chiang Rai]). — Deignan, 

 Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 156 (Doi Suthep). 



Psarisomus dalhousiae dalhousiae, Gyldenstolpe, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 

 1915, p. 229 (Pha Hing) ; Ibis, 1920, p. 581 ("Northern Siam").— Chasen 

 and Boden Kloss, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1932, p. 236 (Doi 

 Suthep.) — Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1936, p. 98 (Doi 

 Suthep.) — de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1934, p. 246 

 (Doi Suthep) .—Riley, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 252 (Khun Tan, 

 Doi Hua Mot, Doi Langka). 



The long-tailed broadbill is an uncommon or rare resident of dense, 

 well- watered evergreen, at whatever elevation, probably throughout 

 our area. During a six weeks' stay on Doi Ang Ka I saw only three, 



